Room to Improve Episode Rating Graph
Jun 2007 - present
Jun 2007 - present
6.4
Browse episode ratings trends for Room to Improve. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of Room to Improve's 92 episodes.
S15 Ep3
10.0
21st Jan 2024
Sandra and Daniel Davey bought their dream home in Knocklyon, Dublin over four years ago. However, the house is so cold that their main aim is to make their home more liveable.
S12 Ep5
10.0
6th Oct 2019
Claudia and Tom's 1920s bungalow with panoramic views of Tramore Bay pushes architect Dermot Bannon to the limit as he tries to deliver the perfect home with the perfect view.
S12 Ep2
10.0
15th Sep 2019
Dermot Bannon heads to Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary. Joe has lived the bachelor life up until now and his house shows it. Dermot sees exactly why bride-to-be Mary wants a redesign.
S12 Ep1
10.0
8th Sep 2019
In the first episode of the twelfth series architect Dermot Bannon and garden designer Diarmuid Gavin combine forces to create a dream home and garden for a couple in Athgarvan in Co. Kildare.
S11 Ep1
10.0
18th Feb 2018
Dermot Bannon returns for a new series, as the urbane architect accepts a challenge from singer Daniel O'Donnell and his wife Majella to reconfigure their beloved Kincasslagh home.
S10 Ep5
10.0
26th Feb 2017
A teacher plans to move into her grandparents' old 19th-century farmhouse in Co Meath before her wedding. Dermot Bannon discovers the property is outdated, cold and cramped, and begins making plans for a single storey extension. However, costs soon escalate as major problems are discovered with the drains and septic tank.
S10 Ep4
10.0
19th Feb 2017
Architect Dermot Bannon takes on more design projects. At Sutton in Dublin, Dermot extends a beloved childhood home into a sumptuous new one for Hannah, James and their sons.
S8 Ep8
10.0
15th Mar 2015
Leonard and Caroline live in house once owned by Leonard's grandparents in the south Dublin suburb of Dundrum - a 1960s three-bed semi that hasn't changed at all since the couple bought it two years ago.
S8 Ep6
10.0
1st Mar 2015
Architect Dermot Bannon is challenged to blend a 1970s chic theme with a modern design in a house near Mullingar, Co Westmeath.
S8 Ep5
10.0
22nd Feb 2015
Sally-Ann, her husband Trevor, and their four children live in Sally-Ann's childhood home - a huge, distinctive 1970s architect-designed home outside Mullingar in Westmeath that they've dreamed of rennovating for years.
S8 Ep4
10.0
15th Feb 2015
This week, Dermot wants to create a wheelchair friendly house in Malahide that's also a welcoming family home
S8 Ep3
10.0
8th Feb 2015
Struggling with a tight schedule, a limited budget and the traditionalist taste of his clients, can Dermot balance their love of classic farmhouse design with his own vision of clean urban functionality?
S8 Ep2
10.0
1st Feb 2015
Jean Robinson and Daithi Elliffe have bought themselves what they hope will be an ideal family home in a unique location - a listed 19th century former schoolhouse at Kilternan with spectacular views of the Dublin mountains, but all is not as it appears.
S6 Ep5
10.0
12th Nov 2012
Catherine Bennett and her youngest daughter Sarah Jane are keen to downsize from their huge 13-bedroomed house in Mullingar. Dermot helps design their dream home on the site of a 3-bed bungalow that’s been uninhabited for the last nine years.
S6 Ep2
10.0
21st Oct 2012
This week Dermot goes to Cork to work with a family spanning three generations - who all have different ideas on how to improve their home.
S6 Ep1
10.0
14th Oct 2012
Dermot Bannon helps a family to transform their 70s bungalow outside Tipperary into a modern family home.
S5 Ep4
10.0
5th Oct 2011
Dermot helps a couple in Dundrum to extend their cottage that has been home to three generations of the McDonnell clan
S5 Ep3
10.0
28th Sep 2011
After a series of delays and an ongoing failure to see eye-to-eye with the clients Dermot comes close to walking off a project in Wicklow
S4 Ep6
10.0
9th Jun 2010
Dermot is in Tullow, with Tom and Lisa who want to renovate their 19th century farmhouse.
S4 Ep5
10.0
2nd Jun 2010
Dermot is in Clontarf, with Denise and Ben who desperately want a second bathroom for their family home, but their budget is limited
S4 Ep4
10.0
26th May 2010
Dermot is in Dalkey, with a budget of €180,000, he must come up with an innovative design to match their exacting requirements within the confines of an incredibly tight site.
S4 Ep3
10.0
19th May 2010
Dermot is in Laytown, co.Meath, with a budget of €60,000, Dermot's worry "is even if you took away the shoddy workmanship you'd spend the 60k, this is a really difficult one..."
S5 Ep6
2.0
19th Oct 2011
Dermot tells a couple, who have bought a villa style cottage in their dream location of Blackrock, that they've essentially bought themselves a "mud hut"!
S12 Ep6
4.0
13th Oct 2019
Dermot Bannon meets Glenn Keating and Gustav van der Westhuizen who live in Grace Park, Drumcondra, with their 5-year-old son Noah and two pet Weimaraner dogs.
S1 Ep1
5.5
20th Jun 2007
Eimear Farrell and her 8 year old daughter Hannah with a budget of €20,000 (our smallest budget in the series) need the entire downstairs of the 2 bedroomed home in Killiney completely re-modelled.
S3 Ep9
6.0
29th Jul 2009
Dermot helps Nora Sommerfield to turn her Ratoath house into a home.
S9 Ep2
6.7
14th Feb 2016
In Drogheda, Dermot attempts an architectural flight of fancy at the 1930s home of long-haul airline Pilot Ian and his girlfriend Claire.
S9 Ep3
7.0
21st Feb 2016
Dermot travels to Baldoyle, north Dublin, where he flips the upstairs and downstairs of Mel and Aoife's bayside home to make the most of a spectacular view.
S9 Ep4
7.0
28th Feb 2016
In Maynooth, Dermot redesigns George and Sinead's 1850s coach house only to discover the entire building has been compromised by a parasitic fungus.
S9 Ep5
7.0
6th Mar 2016
Dermot Bannon concludes the series three of his favourite properties from earlier shows. He is reunited with pub owners in Longford whom he persuaded to make use of empty space, a couple who moved from California to Bishoptown and a semi-detached home in Malahide designed to be completely wheelchair-accessible.
S10 Ep2
7.0
5th Feb 2017
At the seaside village of Rush, Dermot does his best to keep up with sprout farmer Enda and his extraordinary self-build project.
S10 Ep1
7.3
29th Jan 2017
In North Dublin Dermot doubles the size of a 1940's Malahide cottage to create the dream home Robbie and Julie have spent 20 years saving for.
S8 Ep7
7.5
8th Mar 2015
Pat and Marita plan to renovate and extend the 1950s 3-bed bungalow where Pat grew up - a tiny, dark house currently occupied by Pat's 93-year-old mother Mary. But with three generations of the family to accommodate - each needing their own personal space - architect Dermot Bannon has his work cut out.
S1 Ep4
8.0
11th Jul 2007
This week, Dermot Bannon helps a couple in Enniscorthy renovate an old cottage and prepare their home for a new baby. For John and Anna Kinsella it is important to get their home in order.
S1 Ep5
8.0
18th Jul 2007
In this week's programme, the penultimate of the series, Dermot finds himself the dream job. Liz and Malcolm Currie live in a large four-bedroomed house in Dalkey, on Dublin's southside.
S1 Ep6
8.0
25th Jul 2007
This week, Podge and Jo Ussher want to turn their Wexford cottage from a holiday home into their permanent home without sacrificing any of its 1930s charm. Their house needs a lot of work.
S2 Ep4
8.0
25th Jun 2008
Declan and Judy Cadwell from Clontarf share a small terraced home with their three sons, Christopher 19, Ross 17 and Jake 13. But only just.
S4 Ep8
8.0
7th Jul 2010
Jim and Siobhan Doyle live in a beautiful old house over looking Dublin Bay in Sutton. See Dermot Bannon transform the rambling old house into a beautiful new space.
S7 Ep1
8.0
1st Dec 2013
Architect Dermot Bannon helps Senator Katherine Zappone and Dr Ann Louise Gilligan renovate a dilapidated hunting lodge in Brittas, Dublin.
S9 Ep1
8.0
7th Feb 2016
Architect Dermot Bannon returns with a brand new series of Room To Improve featuring more of his innovative and contemporary design projects. In the first episode Dermot travels to the village of Puckaun in north Tipperary, to meet teachers Darragh Egan, his partner Sarah Lovett and their three month old son Donagh.
S10 Ep3
8.0
12th Feb 2017
Dermot Bannon helps two teachers to renovate a cottage in Moate, Co Westmeath. Ther property is hemmed in on all sides, but the owners hope to come up with a design that gives them their privacy. The building contractor suggests it may be simpler to tear it down and start from scratch, and Dermot is soon proposing some unusual designs that have never been seen in the village before.
S2 Ep3
9.0
18th Jun 2008
This week, Dermot comes to the rescue of Cathy and Michael Keane who bought their house when it was being used as a cowshed.
S3 Ep1
9.0
3rd Jun 2009
Room to Improve starts with Jennifer Burke and Quenton McGrath, Dermot knows exactly how to solve their problem but it means destroying a lot of the work the couple have already done.
S3 Ep6
9.0
8th Jul 2009
Dermot is in Kilkenny with the Kirwan family where everything that can go wrong has gone wrong.
S1 Ep1
5.5
20th Jun 2007
Eimear Farrell and her 8 year old daughter Hannah with a budget of €20,000 (our smallest budget in the series) need the entire downstairs of the 2 bedroomed home in Killiney completely re-modelled.
S1 Ep2
10.0
27th Jun 2007
This week Dermot is in Glasnevin with Terry and Peadar Clarke and their two children Marie Bernadette and Luke. The entire downstairs of their home needs to be made accessible for Peadar who will soon end up in a wheelchair.
S1 Ep3
10.0
4th Jul 2007
Irene and Anthony Zambra live with their four children in Castleknock. They bought their semi-detached home 11 years ago. It came with an extension which the Zambras use as a kitchen and dining area.
S1 Ep4
8.0
11th Jul 2007
This week, Dermot Bannon helps a couple in Enniscorthy renovate an old cottage and prepare their home for a new baby. For John and Anna Kinsella it is important to get their home in order.
S1 Ep5
8.0
18th Jul 2007
In this week's programme, the penultimate of the series, Dermot finds himself the dream job. Liz and Malcolm Currie live in a large four-bedroomed house in Dalkey, on Dublin's southside.
S1 Ep6
8.0
25th Jul 2007
This week, Podge and Jo Ussher want to turn their Wexford cottage from a holiday home into their permanent home without sacrificing any of its 1930s charm. Their house needs a lot of work.
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The first episode of Room to Improve aired on June 20, 2007.
The last episode of Room to Improve aired on January 28, 2024.
There are 92 episodes of Room to Improve.
There are 15 seasons of Room to Improve.
Yes.
Room to Improve is set to return for future episodes.